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solo@piefed.social Joined: 2025-06-07

A floating mass of trees and vegetation in British Columbia’s Williston Lake attracted international attention after it was filmed this summer by boaters—and then seemed to disappear.

MunkyNutts@lemmy.world Joined: 2024-03-12

Floating bogs, this one was pushed around by boats https://youtu.be/X2AG6LAOBYo

toynbee@piefed.social Joined: 2025-09-12

Wasn't this phenomenon documented in a Terry Pratchett book?

Malgas@beehaw.org Joined: 2023-06-09

That book drew on a different ephemeral island.

toynbee@piefed.social Joined: 2025-09-12

For shame, his name doesn't even show in the "popular culture" section!

Welcome to the nostalgia-filled piefed instance of yesteryear.

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